Bug 105905 - Unable to configure second net card
Summary: Unable to configure second net card
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: YaST2 (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: i686 All
: P5 - None : Major
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QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-08-19 18:00 UTC by Stan Gonser
Modified: 2005-12-27 21:35 UTC (History)
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Description Stan Gonser 2005-08-19 18:00:00 UTC 
Trying to configure second nic through yast, Hi-light second card -- select 
edit -- Network address setup -- configuration name is same as configured eth0 
First Card -- Dell Netxtreme Gigabit  
Second Card -- RealTek 8139
Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-21 10:01:29 UTC 
Please provide YaST2 logs and hwinfo output, see:
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST
Comment 2 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-02 07:51:00 UTC 
Cannot fix it without any logs or other response...
Comment 3 Mark Delvaux 2005-12-27 21:35:31 UTC 
Resolution:  	WORKSFORME
it is pretty stupid.
There is no errors in the logs. Problem is with with DNS resolution. setting up activation of secondary NIC will disable name resolution. LAN works fine with two cards (e.g. if samba rely on lmhosts).
eth0      RX packets:95 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:14399 (14.0 Kb)  TX bytes:19957 (19.4 Kb)
          Interrupt:193


eth1      RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:1179630 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

see a difference?

when only one card is up, everything works (any card). Activating secondary card kills internet (DNS problems becasuse all packets are dropped and for some reason it resuses to connect through the other card) but LAN works (samba has specified interface and lmhosts for name resolution). Shutting down firewall changes nothing.

The only error in the logs is ntp timeout (obviously but strange: service is attached to both cards: eth0 and eth1).

so "worksforme" solution is worthless.
this worked well winth suse 9.2 and stopped with 9.3. still does not work with 10.0
system: SuSE 10.0
OS 64-bit
NIC: Linksys NC100
onborad NICs:
Giga-byte CK8S
Giga-byte Marvell 88E8001
each of the above works well if only one NIC is activated
/etc/hosts lists all interfaces
/etc/resolv.conf lists DNS servers only and search domain.

Upon activation of second NIC Yast Network device module becomes ex tremerly slow (trying to connect).

this issue is not resolved